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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 2, 2021

You can’t call yourself a pro-life party if your policy goals are to allow the maximum number of people to die of COVID, including children, by banning mask mandates in businesses and schools and raising doubts about vaccines, especially…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 2, 2021

There was that 30-year-old activist in Texas who treated himself with ivermectin, rather than getting the shot and doing the normal things that you would do. He is now dead at 30, leaving young children and a pregnant wife.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 2, 2021

Mitch McConnell would nuke the filibuster in four seconds if he had the opposite situation.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 2, 2021

Just asked Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi, who told supporters at a fund-raiser that Southerners’ belief in eternal life makes them less scared of COVID.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 2, 2021

We are living in a time of consequences, when our fundamental inaction and inability to stop Republicans from taking over the court now has consequences on the American people and on our rights as citizens.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 1, 2021

All the people warned about this court trying to overturn Roe, they were right.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 1, 2021

This law is a travesty on its face and the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to do nothing about it.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 1, 2021

The Texas law is very likely to ban all abortions in Texas, in effect, because it puts every provider of abortion services, including the Uber driver who drives women to a clinic at legal risk of being sued for every abortion performed in…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 1, 2021

When a Supreme Court justice dies, hundreds of millions of people do not know what that means for the rights the Supreme Court has been protecting for them.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 1, 2021

The political pressure on those nine very precious seats has intensified every day since 1869, and they are lifetime appointments.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 31, 2021

They want just Texas. You have to understand that these men, these autocratic men want control of the whole country.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 31, 2021

I don`t trust, just based on what I have seen so far in their actions, that these are core issues for that, making sure that people get $15 minimum -- hour minimum wage, making sure they get extended unemployment benefits, making sure that…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 27, 2021

One answer is because Donald Trump was too much of a coward to actually do it.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 27, 2021

I have watched and covered a Republican administration that ushered in catastrophe in crisis on a host of fronts, and then leaving it for a Democratic administration to come in and fix.

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Laura Ingraham
@lauraingraham· Aug 26, 2021

Hunger is a pretty powerful thing. I don`t mean physical hunger, because people who truly are in need, need help. I`m talking about people who can work, but refuse to work.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 26, 2021

It takes a particular type of person to look someone in need in the eye and then just turn your back on them and say, go hungry.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 26, 2021

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is unquestionably the worst governor in America when it comes to COVID. He’s done the least to contain the spread and the most to prolong the pandemic for the rest of the country.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 26, 2021

I guess what worries me most in this line of Republican magical thinking is that many of them are forgetting that it`s Donald Trump`s decision to bring all the troops out, say, for the 2,500 that put Joe Biden in the position as to whether…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 24, 2021

No wonder Republicans -- no Republicans voted for the John Lewis bill to restore the Voting Rights Act. They love violating it.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 24, 2021

Voter suppression doesn`t just happen in plain sight. There`s an entire vile underbelly of suppression efforts involving dirty tricks, flyers and pamphlets, fake officials with their fake official clipboards all designed to keep certain…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 23, 2021

I think this party has got to pass these bills. We've got to see the results. And then we got to get ready for a tough midterm election.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 23, 2021

But this day, you have a very tiny minority -- majority to work with, which means any group that gets together can be taken seriously. And the moderates just said, you've got to take us seriously. We are your margin for victory in the fall…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 23, 2021

I'll never bet against Nancy Pelosi, you're going to lose your money. But she's had to work very, very hard. And it's because you have two different pressures on this Democratic Party.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 23, 2021

He has displayed not one iota of the kind of normal seriousness an elected official of either party should when presiding over a disaster, a tragedy, a mass death event.

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